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tt0055839 | La chambre ardente | Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son's publishing house, is on the train home, recounting the story of the death of the rich uncle of his neighbor, Mark Despard. Uncle Miles had succumbed to gastroenteritis, which had left him bedridden for days. Although this was considered death from natural causes, two strang... | murder | train | wikipedia | The burning court of the nouvelle vague..
The sixties were a very hard time for Julien Duvivier.He was despised,tried for academism by the burning court of the nouvelle vague.
He did not realize that he was much more than them,and thus,he tried some new tricks,some coming from the "modern" artists:the baroque castle mi... |
tt0100054 | Lord of the Flies | In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British aeroplane crashes on or near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are boys in their middle childhood or preadolescence. Two boys—the fair-haired Ralph and an overweight, bespectacled boy nicknamed "Piggy"—find a conch, which Ralph... | cult, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107166 | Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke | Rahul Malhotra (Aamir Khan) is the caretaker of a garment company that has a pending order of one lakh shirts to Mr Bijlani. Rahul is also the guardian of his deceased sister's mischievous kids: Sunny, Munni, and Vicky. He finds it hard to control the kids, as he is new to this. When the kids cause trouble, Rahul punis... | romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | Not a great film, but a funny and feel-good family entertainer.
I quite enjoyed watching Mahesh Bhatt's Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, a film that does not take itself too seriously and which can surely provide a decent watch for the entire family.
Mahesh Bhatt made some amazing dramatic and intense films in the 1980s, and thi... |
tt0431308 | P.S. I Love You | Holly and Gerry are a married couple who live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They are deeply in love, but they fight occasionally. By winter that year, Gerry suddenly dies of a brain tumor, and Holly realizes how much he means to her as well as how insignificant their arguments were.
Deeply distraught, Holly with... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I know this movie got a lot of negative reviews but when you see your life mirrored on the big screen you can't help but be moved by her struggle to move on and his undying love for her.
Gerry and Holly's relationship is a good example of how couples bring their love to the end quickly.
P.S. Move On. In a poignant scen... |
tt0090849 | Class of Nuke 'Em High | The film follows the events that unfold at Tromaville High School in New Jersey, which is conveniently located next to a nuclear power plant. An accident at the nuclear plant is covered up by plant owner Mr Paley who does not want the facility shut down by the safety commission. The accident causes a radioactive water ... | cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire, humor | train | wikipedia | Class of Nuke 'Em High is one of Troma's best loved and most seen films.
This film helped to define the Troma formula that crap addicts the world over would grow to love - gory violence, gratuitous nudity and black humour, all mixed with a large dose of irony and an incredible lack of taste.Class of Nuke 'Em High was r... |
tt0079182 | Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari | The film's story is told in a series of flashbacks. In the opening scenes, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), is a prisoner of the police. A huge crowd of journalists and an angry mob greets him as he enters a cell. The police quiz him but he refuses to answer. The story goes back to the initial murders. Enokizu tricks and then... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0182295 | Love's Labour's Lost | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, and his three noble companions, the Lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, take an oath not to give in to the company of women. They devote themselves to three years of study and fasting; Berowne agrees somewhat more hesitantly than the others. The King declares that no woman should come wi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0022243 | The Painted Desert | Two cowboy friends, Jeff (J. Farrell MacDonald) and Cash (William Farnum), are traveling through the desert in the southwest U.S., when they come upon a baby who has been abandoned in the back of a covered wagon. They can't leave the defenseless child, so decide to take the baby with them, however, they argue over whic... | romantic | train | wikipedia | During this time four key action sequences were removed to be used as stock footage in later RKO films, among them the 1938 re-make also titled The Painted Desert.
The version shown on Turner Classic Movies, though of superior visual quality, having been derived from the surviving original 35MM material, is still missi... |
tt0041883 | Slattery's Hurricane | Disgruntled with the service, in part because he was disciplined instead of decorated for a hazardous mission, Willard Francis "Will" Slattery left the US Navy and became a private pilot for candy manufacturer R.J. Milne (Walter Kingsford) on the recommendation of his girlfriend, Dolores Grieves (Veronica Lake), Milne'... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Storm Number 9-Slattery's Hurricane..
Lt. Willard Francis Slattery {Richard Widmark}, a former Navy pilot, is in control of this Grumman Mallard Aeroplane.
He's flying right into the centre of a storm, a ferocious storm gathering momentum, here Slattery reviews his latter day life.Slattery's Hurricane is directed by An... |
tt0442674 | The Godfather | In 1945, at his daughter Connie's wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vito's youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, to his family at the reception. Johnny Fontane, a famous singer and Vito's g... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118969 | Detention: The Siege at Johnson High | Years ago, Jason Copeland, now 24, failed his final exams and did not graduate Johnson High School, for which he still holds his History teacher, Mr. Kroft responsible. He decides to take revenge and enters the school with a 12-gauge shotgun, a revolver, and a massive supply of ammunition. He first starts shooting arou... | violence, revenge, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110137 | The Inkwell | Set in the summer of 1976, the film follows the adventures of Drew Tate (Larenz Tate), a shy 16-year-old from upstate New York, when he and his family spend two weeks with affluent relatives on Martha's Vineyard. Drew's parents, Kenny (Joe Morton) and Brenda (Suzzanne Douglass), worry that their son is emotionally dist... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1663143 | Fun Size | In Cleveland, Ohio, high school senior Wren DeSantis' opening narration describes Halloween in Cleveland as a time for its citizens to dress up and be less ashamed of themselves, citing the nickname "the mistake by the lake." This Halloween though would be the first that she and her family spend since the death of her ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I watched this movie on demand, and although there was some flaws, I thought it was very good, for reference, I'm 17 years old.The story covers Wren, played by Victoria Justice, trying to find her trouble-making, prankster brother on Halloween.There was a few cliché's, but I found them very easy to overlook, especially... |
tt0363473 | Beyond the Sea | Rather than providing a straightforward biography, the film weaves fantasy sequences with scenes containing somewhat fictionalized accounts of events in Darin's life, and throughout it, the adult singer interacts with his younger self. It chronicles his determination to rise from his working class roots as Walden Rober... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I'm mentioning this because I realize it's impossible for me to be completely objective about the movie, feeling about its subject as strongly as I do; I think that anyone who loved Bobby Darin cannot be thoroughly objective regarding Spacey's film.That having been said, I can tell you that I was profoundly affected by... |
tt0120430 | Vanishing Point | Jimmy Kowalski (Mortensen), a Gulf War veteran and former stock car racer, works as an automobile restorer and delivery driver at a shop in Idaho. He takes an assignment delivering a 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner to New Mexico, to pay his wife's mounting medical bills. While in New Mexico, he is offered another job: deliver... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036716 | Cobra Woman | The beautiful Tollea is abducted and taken to the Cobra Island, where the Queen is her grandmother. Hava warns the angered Ramu not to go after her, but Ramu sets sail for the forbidden island, with his young friend Kado accompanying him as a stowaway.
A panther attacks Ramu, who is saved by a dart from Kado's deadly b... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | This immortal camp classic stars the sublime Maria Montez as twin sisters - one Good, one Evil.
(Uncharted this island may be, but every drag-queen in the world seems to go shopping there.) And lest we in the audience harbour any lingering doubts about her acting skills, she follows up every speech with the deathless w... |
tt0116353 | Foxfire | Foxfire is narrated by Maddie Wirtz, a high school senior living a rather normal life in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Maddie is in control of her life, with a boyfriend, as well as plans to go to art school. One day in science class, the students are watching the teacher Mr. Buttinger try to make Rita Faldes dissec... | revenge, queer | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055312 | Pocketful of Miracles | Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from street peddler Apple Annie (Bette Davis) to bring him good luck. On the eve of a very important meeting, he finds Annie terribly upset.
Annie, it turns out, has a daughter named Louise (Ann-Margret), who was sent ... | dramatic, comedy | train | wikipedia | With "Pockeful Of Miracles" Frank Capra remakes his own "Lady For A Day" with Capraseque results - that means a mix bag with mostly delightful stuff in it - The major problem here is Glenn Ford, not as an actor but as a producer.
A collection of wonderful character actors: Thomas Mitchell, Ellen Corby and in particular... |
tt0086817 | Transformers | Several thousand years ago, the planet Cybertron was consumed by a civil war by the two Transformer factions, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the Decepticons led by Megatron. Optimus jettisoned the AllSpark, a mystical artifact that brings life to the planet, into space, but Megatron pursued it. Megatron crashed ... | good versus evil, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2375255 | Liz & Dick | Throughout Liz & Dick, Elizabeth and Richard appear in a dark room and reminisce about their life together. On August 5, 1984 in Celigny, Switzerland, an elderly Richard is writing what would be his last letter to Elizabeth and recalls the first time he saw her at a Hollywood party. He then finishes the letter and goes... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Lohan does not sound like Taylor at all, does not bring anything that remotely captures the essence of the woman to this film pairing.
The Wrong Liz. One of Hollywood's most publicized and scandalous relationships is that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
When I saw previews for the 2012 film Liz and Dick, I was ... |
tt1848902 | Game Change | The film opens in 2010 with a frame story: Republican strategist Steve Schmidt is being interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes. Cooper poses a difficult question regarding former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin: was she selected because she would make the best vice president or because she would win the el... | historical | train | wikipedia | Their book, detailing the entire 2008 Presidential election and allegations thereof in both parties, had been criticized for relying on too many anonymous sources and lacking explicit sourcing.This movie, written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, takes the most intriguing segment of the 2008 election, namely t... |
tt0100343 | Peacemaker | In an Eastern Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an unidentified man (later revealed to be a Bosnian diplomat to the UN) is murdered after being paged to meet someone outside.
At a missile base in Russia, SS-18 ICBMs are being decommissioned. Ten nuclear warheads are loaded onto a train and sent to a sepa... | cult | train | wikipedia | Aliens, non-stop action, and Hilary Shepard.
What more do you want?.
Due to budgetary limitations, this movie isn't quite up to the same standard as similar films from the Eighties/early Nineties that it was clearly influenced by (for example, THE HIDDEN, DARK ANGEL, and THE TERMINATOR).
The use of familiar stock foota... |
tt3916762 | Rabhasa | Karthik (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.) returns to India after completing his graduation in the United States, and his mother (Jayasudha) decides to get him married to her brother Dhanunjay's (Sayaji Shinde) daughter Indu (Samantha Ruth Prabhu). When Karthik's father (Nassar) goes to Dhanunjay's house to ask the same, he gets ins... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Rabhasa.....
Hmmmm nice movie.
The movie has the same theme like other Telugu action movies.
NTR's action is very nice, direction is good, Samantha best fits her role.
Bramahanandam Ji "ur the best" his role will bring charm in the audience which the film fails to bring in the first half.
The second half of the film wi... |
tt0066771 | Angels Hard as They Come | Somewhere in Southeast Asia, the present day. A group of five extreme outdoor female Chinese backpackers arrives at the entrance to Kana Jungle, home of the untamed, aboriginal Tiger Tribe. The group's leader is Bai Xue (Yu Nan), a wealthy company CEO; the others are Ta (Mavis Pan), a wild animal protectionist, Yanyan ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Fans of 1960/70s exploitation movies will flip over this one!
Fans of 1960/70s exploitation movies will flip over this one!
Jonathan Demme originally pitched the project to Roger Corman as "a biker Rashomon".
Now that's not exactly how it ended up, but it's still terrific viewing for cult fans nonetheless.
Demme co-wro... |
tt0064990 | La sirène du Mississipi | Louis Mahé (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), whom he has never met. They became acquainted through the personals column of a French newspaper and have been corresponding by mail. ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This is one of the best films I've seen in the last years.Belmonndo and Deneuve shine in their respective roles, he as a naive plantation owner and she as an enigmatic trickster.Words won't do this masterpiece justice,suffice it to say that this is a movie that explores the darker side of love and the pain,humiliation ... |
tt0995752 | Tashan | Jimmy Cliff (Saif Ali Khan) is a call center executive who also teaches English. Pooja Singh (Kareena Kapoor) shows up outside his class and says she needs private tutoring. Without any hesitation, Jimmy quickly agrees as he has already fallen in love with her; he later finds out that Pooja's boss Lakhan Singh Ballebaa... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | This movie is cool.Some d**b f*** critics compared it with Ramgopal Varma Ki Aag.Either they have not seen Aag or Tashan.I saw both of them.Aag is the worst movie I have ever seen.It was a complete disaster in every department.Cult classic Sholay did not receive such a punishment.As in the case of Tashan, it is 1 billi... |
tt0254481 | Koi... Mil Gaya | Scientist Sanjay Mehra (Rakesh Roshan) creates a computer program from which he sends variations of the syllable om into space, hoping to attract the attention of extraterrestrial life. When he believes he has finally gotten a response, the scientific community mocks him. While driving home, an alien spacecraft appears... | romantic, cruelty | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046374 | The Story of Three Loves | === The Jealous Lover ===
On an ocean liner, a passenger recognizes famed ballet creator Charles Coudray (James Mason), and asks him politely why one of his works has never been performed since its debut. When Coudray remains silent, the fan leaves him alone with his thoughts, leading to a flashback.
Ballerina Paula Wo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Several years ago, when I first saw this movie, I felt that it was melodramatic with awkward dialogue and clumsy direction, and not worth my time, except for the dancing segment with Moira Shearer and James Mason ("Jealous Lover").
After this recent viewing, I have a better appreciation of the finished product and wond... |
tt0166387 | Under a Killing Moon | Under a Killing Moon takes place in post-World War III San Francisco in December 2042. After the devastating events of the nuclear war, many major cities have been rebuilt (as is the case with New San Francisco), though certain areas still remain as they were before the war (as in Old San Francisco). The war also left ... | cult, neo noir, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | A Classic of Computer Cinema.
This remains, for all time, my favourite computer game.
There has never been a better blend of game and movie.
Not only is the game challenging and fun, but the movie happens to be exceptionally well written.
Chris Jones directs the action and stars as the main character, Tex Murphy, a lov... |
tt0322282 | Final Examination | A police officer fails in capturing a drug dealer in Los Angeles, so his boss Hugh Janus transfers him to Hawaii for disciplinary reasons. On the island some former female students are just gathering in a luxury hotel. The young ladies once belonged to the sorority "Omeaga Kappa Omega" and are now invited to an erotic ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Final Examination is a murder mystery film and not what the front cover suggests.
No supernatural element here, just a good old fashioned who done it.Starring Kari "Sliders" Wuhrer we see a girl killed off during a hawaiian sorority reunion and a new cop transferred in from the big city is on the case.
Teamed up with W... |
tt0092848 | Deadly Prey | Colonel Hogan rents his mercenaries out to anyone with the right price. This time it's businessman Michaelson. A deal is struck, and Hogan recruits new troops. For training, he orders his troops to kidnap innocent people, take them to the forest and hunt them. Unfortunately this time, they picked the wrong guy, Mike Da... | murder, cult, violence, absurd, action, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086856 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) and his mentor Dr. Hikita (Robert Ito) perfect the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows one to pass through solid matter. Banzai tests it by driving his Jet Car through a mountain. While passing through it, Banzai discovers himself in another dimension, and on returning to his... | cult, alternate reality, psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The stellar supporting cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Clancy Brown, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, and Ellen Barkin, and they're all pretty darn good.I'm not even going to pretend to be rational or unbiased about this movie.
Yes, it looks cheesy and dated, but damn it, you have to take a stand somewhere in life, you ha... |
tt0034770 | The Gay Sisters | Sisters Fiona (Barbara Stanwyck), Evelyn (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and Susanna Gaylord (Nancy Coleman) are orphaned when first their mother goes down with the Lusitania and then their wealthy father, Major Penn Gaylord, is killed in France in World War I. Before Penn left for France, he told Fiona, the eldest, that the G... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062974 | Finian's Rainbow | === Act I ===
The play opens in Rainbow Valley, Missitucky, near Fort Knox, home of a mixture of black and white tobacco sharecroppers. The local sheriff and Buzz Collins, front man for local senator Billboard Rawkins, demand the locals pay their taxes or else have their land auctioned off. The sharecroppers want to wa... | comedy, fantasy | train | wikipedia | until 1968, when a sudden splash of popular screen musicals prompted Warner Brothers to bankroll it.The plot is deliberately ridiculous, and finds Irishman Finian McLonergan (Fred Astaire) and his long suffering daughter Sharon (Petula Clark) in Tennessee, where Finian plans to bury a crock of gold stolen from a leprec... |
tt0106521 | Carnosaur | In a small town in the American Southwest, a mysterious illness befalls its citizens. Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd), a scientist working for the Eunice Corporation, is secretly breeding a strain of extra large and fertile chickens by splicing their DNA with that of different animals. The sponsors of the corporation bec... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Which Tiptree is planning to destroy the world by unleashing an lethal virus and letting Dinosaur ruled the world once more.Directed by Adam Simon (Brain Dead) made an watchable but forgotten horror/sci-fi effort by that was made in the wake of Steven Spielberg's Big Budget "Jurassic Park".
The movie doesn't bother me ... |
tt0886539 | Luck by Chance | Young actor Vikram Jaisingh (Farhan Akhtar) arrives in Mumbai to make it as a Bollywood film star with the help of Abhimanyu (Arjun Mathur), an actor friend from his hometown, and their mutual friend Sameer, who works in a studio props department.
Vikram befriends Abhimanyu's neighbor, young actress Sona Mishra (Konkon... | satire | train | wikipedia | Isha Sherwani plays the spoilt heroine convincingly while her on-screen mother Dimple Kapadia looks gorgeous as ever and gives her best after Dil Chahta Hai. Juhi Chawla is lovable as ever while Sanjay Kapoor surprises us with a good performance.
The tale is essentially of their own immediate environment and it is a st... |
tt0066495 | The Twelve Chairs | In the Soviet Union in 1927, a former Marshal of Nobility, Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, works as the registrar of marriages and deaths in a sleepy provincial town. His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry was hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family’s d... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Ron Moody (Fagin in the musical OLIVER) is a minor Tsarist nobleman who discovers, when attending his mother-in-law on her death bed, that she hid her fortune in jewelry in one of the dining room chairs.
Moody discovers that his mother-in-law did confess this to one person besides him: the local Russian Orthodox Priest... |
tt1726885 | Tarantula | A severely deformed man stumbles through the Arizona desert, falls and dies. Dr. Matt Hastings, a doctor in the nearby small town of Desert Rock, is called in by the Sheriff to examine the body at the local mortuary. Asked to define the cause of death, he finds himself perplexed: the deceased was someone he knew and ha... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116756 | Kazaam | The film begins with a very big wrecking ball destroying an abandoned building. The impact knocks over a magic lamp inside of the building, causing it to land on a boombox. The genie inside decides to make residence inside the boombox from there on in.
Meanwhile, a boy named Max (Francis Capra) goes to school. He greet... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Saturday morning jumped out of bed And put on my best suit Got in my car and raced like a jet All the way to you Knocked on your door with heart in my hand To ask you a question 'Cause I know that you're an old-fashioned man, yeahCan I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Shaq's awesomely realistic portrayal of ... |
tt0289830 | Taken | Retired CIA field operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) attempts to build a closer relationship with his shy daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), who lives with her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen) and her wealthy stepfather Stuart (Xander Berkeley). While overseeing and helping provide security at a concert for pop star Sheerah (... | insanity, alternate history, murder | train | wikipedia | The story itself draws on the current belief in Alien abduction, but in fact the real threat of being "taken" comes more from the scientists and military investigators who doggedly pursue their prey without any regard for the humanity of those they come into contact with, including the alien hybrids.
Spielberg is extre... |
tt4136056 | The Seven Five | In the 1980s, Brooklyn, New York was suffering from a crack epidemic. Mike Dowd worked in the NYPD's 75th Precinct in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, which was considered to be one of the most dangerous precincts in the United States at the time. The 75th Precinct had one of the highest murder rates in the ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Incredible story of police corruption.
Precinct Seven Five refers to the 75th precinct located in Brooklyn New York which was the location of extraordinary police corruption back in the 1980's.
In this decade the streets of New York really were crime addled and the 75th precinct had a reputation as one of the very wors... |
tt0046807 | Brigadoon | Act I
New Yorkers Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas have travelled to the Scottish Highlands on a game-hunting vacation, but they get lost on their first night out. They begin to hear music ("Brigadoon") coming from a nearby village that does not appear on their map of the area. They head over there to get directions bac... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | They did do some mighty nice dancing though, especially The Heather on the Hill ballet and Kelly's lighthearted romp to Almost Like Being in Love which was the big hit from Brigadoon.Kelly wanted to shoot the film on location in Scotland, but MGM eying budgetary problems and director Vincente Minnelli's desire to do it... |
tt0036349 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | British secret agent Alfred Pettibone carrying a vital secret document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. The British government turns to Holmes for help. He deduces that Pettibone converted the document to microfilm. Avoiding an assassination attempt, he hurries to Washington with Watson to retrieve it b... | murder | train | wikipedia | Searching for an invaluable microfilm, SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON encounters as much danger as ever he did in old London.Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce return as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in this unpretentious but enjoyable film.
Of course, with Rathbone all cerebral in... |
tt0080487 | Caddyshack | Danny Noonan works as a caddy at the upscale Bushwood Country Club to earn enough money to go to college. Danny often caddies for Ty Webb, a suave and talented golfer and the son of one of Bushwood's co-founders. Danny decides to gain favor with Judge Elihu Smails, the country club's stodgy co-founder and director of t... | comedy, cult, violence, absurd, humor, entertaining | train | wikipedia | `National Lampoon's Animal House' may have been one of the first comedies to evolve from the `Saturday Night Live' generation, but it could be argued that `Caddyshack,' directed by Harold Ramis-- and which features two SNL alumni, Chevy Chase and Bill Murray-- actually spawned the entire `SNL genre,' of films, because ... |
tt0279493 | Undercover Brother | The film begins with a back story of how African-American culture's popularity with the American public began to decline in the 1980s, when style and originality began to lose appeal in the public eye due to the persistent efforts of "The Man" (Robert Trumbull), a powerful Caucasian man in control of a secret organizat... | humor, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049834 | Tension at Table Rock | After killing a man whom many thought was his friend, Wes Tancred is assaulted and immortalized in an uncomplimentary song about one man shooting his best friend in the back; when in fact Wes' friend was reaching for his gun to shoot Wes in the back as he started out the door. Wes leaves town and winds up working as a ... | murder | train | wikipedia | But a very convincing argument can be made that this, and many other '50s "B" westerns-including in my view almost all of the Audie Murphy ones-are the absolute pinnacle of the genre.Other reviewers have given good accounts of the plot so I will instead mention: the marvellous cast (DeForrest Kelly was underused as a w... |
tt0090199 | Treasure Island | Young Jim Hawkins Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) arrives and drunkenly talks about treasure. Soon after, Bones is visited by Black Dog (Charle... | absurd, psychedelic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0352277 | De-Lovely | As he is about to die, Porter's life flashes before him in the form of a musical production staged by the archangel Gabriel in the Indiana theater where the composer first performed on stage.
He immediately calls to mind the start of his story - the night he met his wife, Linda Lee Thomas - Paris' latest divorcee and s... | romantic, queer, flashback | train | wikipedia | Kevin Kline proves you don't have to look like the "Real Person" to bring his spirit to life and Ashley Judd (contrary to some unfair and plain wrong reviews) gives us a strong Linda Porter, a complex and vulnerable Linda Porter who, as is usually the case, finally succumbs to her life choices with an uncommon grace an... |
tt0063429 | The Pink Jungle | A fashion photographer, Ben Morris, goes to a remote South America location to take pictures of model Alison Duquesne for a lipstick ad. An adventurer they encounter, Sammy Ryderbeit, steals their helicopter and leaves them stranded in the village.
When the three are reunited, they discover a treasure map on the corpse... | romantic | train | wikipedia | It's A Lipstick People. Without a doubt James Garner is one of the best comedic actors of the last half of the 20th century. His timing and facial expressions add so much to any film he's in. The Pink Jungle however is one unusual type of comedy for him. It can probably best be compared to the Humphrey Bogart-John Hust... |
tt0091613 | Native Son | === Book One: Fear ===
Bigger Thomas wakes up in a dark, small room at the sound of the alarm clock. He lives in one room with his brother Buddy, his sister Vera, and their mother. Suddenly, a rat appears. The room turns into a maelstrom and after a violent chase, Bigger claims the life of the animal with an iron skill... | tragedy, depressing, murder | train | wikipedia | A terrible adaptation of a wonderful book.
I'm not sure what Diane Silver was thinking when she was making this movie, but it obviously had nothing to do with Richard Wright's novel, which the movie is based on.We read the novel this past summer for AP English 12, and just watched the film.
During periodic note-taking ... |
tt0112065 | The Maxx | === Main story arc ===
Mr. Gone, a serial rapist with a telepathic link to Julie, has extensive knowledge of and access to other people's Outbacks. He starts phoning Julie, but she thinks he is merely an obscene phone caller and ignores him. Eventually, the Maxx gets in Gone's way by "protecting" Julie. Gone tries to k... | fantasy, realism, allegory, alternate reality, flashback, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0443559 | Killshot | Mafia hitman Armand Degas, known as "Blackbird", is hired to assassinate a mafia leader, whom he calls "Papa". Afterwards, he meets Richie Nix at a bar, where they decide to team up. Meanwhile, Wayne and Carmen Colson are living separated, with Carmen living in the house. Wayne gets fired from his construction job and ... | philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | The plot summary of Killshot sounds as one of many cheap thrillers which infest the dusty shelves of video stores and the night hour from some modest cable-TV channels, because we have two formulas we have seen on many movies from this genre: the retired killer who is going to do his last job, but is betrayed by his po... |
tt0262150 | Black Books | Bernard Black is the proprietor of Black Books, a small bookshop. The series revolves around the lives of Bernard, Manny and Fran. A central theme is Bernard's odd position as a moody and spiteful shopkeeper who has a loathing of the outside world and all the people who inhabit it, except his oldest friend, Fran, who i... | psychedelic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Everyone knows a Bernard or a Manny in their lives, which makes Black Books hilarious!
Most British sitcoms (Britcoms?) I've seen have been funny, but I usually forget about them rather quick (probably due to the cultural differences) but Black Books stuck with me so much that I was forced to buy a bootleg VHS of the f... |
tt0044871 | The Last Page | Bookstore manager John Harman (Brent) reprimands his attractive young clerk Ruby Bruce (Dors) for being late to work. Later the same day Ruby catches small-time crook Jeff Hart (Reynolds) trying to steal a rare book. Instead of turning him in she accepts a date with him. When Harman later tries to kiss Ruby she tells H... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049637 | Private's Progress | During World War II, the young undergraduate Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael), is conscripted into the British Army. Unlike his friend Egan (Peter Jones), Windrush is a most reluctant soldier and struggles through basic training at Gravestone Barracks. Failing his officer selection board, he is posted to a holding uni... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0433405 | Land of the Blind | Hollander plays Maximilian II (often called Junior), the ignorant, vindictive and petulant ruler of a troubled (but unnamed) country. Maximilian has two main interests: enjoying himself and running his country's movie industry. The output of the nation's film studios under Maximilian is limited to terrible action-adven... | brainwashing, violence, avant garde, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | These despots show character traits mankind has witnessed in real life, such as Pol Pot, Mussolini, Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette, Peron, Ayatollah Khoumeni, and Kim Jong Il. In this "land of the blind," the people are more interested in popular culture than the suffering of mankind at the hands of the despots.
As a resul... |
tt0362165 | Son of the Mask | A decade after the events of the first film, Dr. Arthur Neuman is giving a tour of the hall of Norse mythology in Edge City Museum. When Dr. Neuman reaches the part concerning Loki's mask, a man in black becomes increasingly anxious. Dr. Neuman mentions that Loki created the mask and unleashed it on Earth, and that tho... | violence, comic | train | wikipedia | And he responds "Cuz I gotta!" Unfortunately, that answer doesn't cover it because after seeing Son of the Mask I still left the theatre thinking, "Good Lord, Why?" Guterman and the rest of the people involved in the blasphemous film need to realize that the response given to why are you making this film should not be ... |
tt0084112 | I, the Jury | Dr. Charlotte Manning is young, beautiful, blonde, and well-to-do psychiatrist motivated by greed. To increase her profit, she becomes involved with a crime syndicate with ties to both prostitution and drug-trafficking. The leader of the organization is Hal Kines, who has had plastic surgery to make him look younger, a... | suspenseful, neo noir, cruelty, murder, violence, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | This actually a combination of two Spillane books "I the Jury" and "The Body Lovers" This is not a great film, but good.
The action and plot are pretty good and Assante gives a decent performance, but the thing that I remember the most is just how damn sexy Barbara Carrera is in this movie.
It's worth watching for any... |
tt0093405 | Leonard Part 6 | Bill Cosby plays Leonard Parker, a CIA spy-turned-restaurateur. According to the opening sequence of the movie, the title refers to the idea that this film is actually the sixth installment of a series of films featuring the adventures of Leonard, as parts one through five were locked up in the interests of world secur... | cult | train | wikipedia | The relationship between Cosby - a master spy living in an enormous house - and his unhappy wife (who lives in the enormous house next door, which is supposed to be a funny circumstance) took time to develop.
But I thought it's gotta get better, Bill Cosby wouldn't allow this garbage to be shown to millions of kids li... |
tt0052002 | No Name on the Bullet | When infamous hired gunman John Gant (Audie Murphy) arrives in the small town of Lordsburg, Arizona, the locals are terrified by his reputation and surprised by how young he is. Although Sheriff Buck Hastings would like to arrest Gant, he points out to the townsmen that Gant always coerces his rivals to draw their gun ... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Audie Murphy (as John Gant) plays it real smooth here.
He manipulates the whole town 'leading citizens' into thinking which one is the one he's after (that he's been hired to kill), and leaves them all feeling quite guilty over their past misdeeds.
This is one of the few times you'll see Murphy play a bad guy, although... |
tt0097991 | No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder | In Moc Hoa, Vietnam, a group of prisoners are executed under the watchful eye of General Ty (Hwang Jang Lee). Meanwhile, Scott Wylde (Loren Avedon), an American college student, visits the country to visit his former teacher and best friend Mac Jarvis (Max Thayer), meeting Terry (Cynthia Rothrock), Mac's former lover, ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This time the movie's featured star is Cynthia Rothrock.
But the action scenes are excellent and fun to watch..
Loren Avedon is simply matchless as a young humble American hero in his first movie.
Karate Tiger II proves that just because a movie is low budget, it doesn't mean that the people working on it aren't incred... |
tt0385560 | Boo | The film starts with a man (Morton Lowry) reading the novel Dracula . The narrator says that they are presenting their own formula for cheap entertainment, a nightmare. They say to eat a real lobster, not the kind they send to congress, have milk, and work up a chill. The man falls asleep.
They then go to a cellar (edi... | paranormal, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Steven Felty), a former patient that raped a little girl and burned the hospital, is trying to escape possessing their bodies that melt down with his evil spirit."Boo" is a messy ghost story, with a confused screenplay and poor development of characters, especially Jessie.
I hate using back-handed, "well it's better th... |
tt0029080 | Kid Galahad | Willy Grogan is a small-time boxing promoter based in the Catskills resort region of Cream Valley, New York. He owns the Grogan's Gaelic Gardens inn. He is a contemptible man and is in debt and pays little attention to the woman who loves him, Dolly, a chain-smoking, love-starved woman residing at the camp. Into their ... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Boxing film with Edward G and Bette Davis, dubbed.
Bette's night club number in a rich contralto is a jarring moment in this movie."Kid Galahad" is a 1937 film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring part of the excellent Warners roster: Edward G.
Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Jane Bryan, and Wayne Morris.
Mo... |
tt0816556 | Lake Mungo | Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming with her family at a dam in Ararat, Australia. After she dies her teen brother Matthew uses cameras set about the house to record what seem to be images of Alice's ghost appearing in the family home. It's discovered that Matthew was actually setting up the "sightings"... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Lake Mungo succeeds at being not only a chilling ghost story, but a film about grief.
Lake Mungo really is a very simple film, it follows the Palmer family as they deal with the loss of Alice (their daughter/sister).
It is filmed in a documentary style, in which the family/friends/work associates are interviewed by an ... |
tt3878542 | Justice League: Throne of Atlantis | In the Atlantic Ocean, the USS California submarine picks up incoming human-like threats approaching the sub by sonar. The sub is attacked and the entire crew is killed by the hostiles. At S.T.A.R. Labs' Justice League headquarters, Cyborg, who has recently received environmental upgrades in an operation that replaced ... | good versus evil, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1878805 | World Without End | In March 1957, Commander Dr. Eldon Galbraithe (Nelson Leigh), engineer Henry Jaffe (Christopher Dark), radioman Herbert Ellis (Rod Taylor) and scientist John Borden (Hugh Marlowe), are returning to Earth from the first spaceflight, a reconnaissance trip around Mars. Suddenly, their spaceship is somehow accelerated to i... | murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | So I read and watched and Pillars of the Earth, which I loved despite some misgivings with the TV adaptation.
Like Pillars of the Earth, World Without End is an excellent novel, full of historical drama but still accessible through the very human characters in the story.
The screenplay is awful, the characters have bee... |
tt0418110 | Romanzo criminale | In 1970s Rome, four young delinquents, nicknamed Ice, Lebanese, Dandi and Grand steal a car. Crashing through a police road block, the driver, Grand is crushed by the steering column. Back at their hideout, a small disused caravan near a beach, they are discovered by the police. Cold, Lebanese and Dandi run away, but a... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Well the movie is quite disappointing, and not because of the script, which in a way does work (except maybe for a foreign audience who will not catch all the political implications of the movie), but for Michele Placido's poor television style of directing and (mainly) for the choice of (most) the actors.
These guys s... |
tt0067144 | The Go-Between | The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is a guest of his wealthy school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at his family's Norfolk country house. While there, Marcus is taken sick and quarantined with the measles. Left to entertain himse... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Harold Pinter adapted L P Hartley's novel and Joseph Losey directed - Lose, a blacklisted American who became one of the pillars of British Cinema in the 60's - think "The Servant" or "Accident" - Then, of course, Julie Christie, sublime.
Richly-detailed period romantic drama, told more or less from a child's viewpoint... |
tt0020366 | Say It with Songs | Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison and soon insists that Katherine divorce him, for her... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | SAY IT WITH SONGS (Warner Brothers, 1929), directed by Lloyd Bacon, reunites the legendary Al Jolson with little boy wonder, Davey Lee, of 'SINGING FOOL' (1928) fame, in yet another sentimental musical drama that failed to live up to the success of its predecessor.
This, Jolson's third feature film, contains several fi... |
tt0083611 | La balance | Nicole is a streetwalker in Paris. Her former racketeer boyfriend and pimp, Dédé, has been excluded from the business of a local mob boss, Roger Massina, because of a romantic dispute over Nicole. When a police informant is killed, the police decide to recruit Dédé as a replacement. The police raid Dédé's apartment, fi... | revenge, humor, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | high wire act.
A small time ex-con (Phillipe Leotard as Dede) and his prostitute girlfriend Nicole (Nathalie Baye) are relentlessly pressured by an aggressive and at time brutal police squad led by Mathias Palouzi (Richard Berry) to inform on the mob.
Using any means necessary, playing one off against the other, humili... |
tt0066830 | The Big Doll House | Collier (Brown) enters prison, having been found guilty of killing her husband. She is introduced to the beautiful occupants of her cell, in for crimes ranging from political insurgency to heroin addiction. The women often clash, which leads to their torture by sadistic guard Lucian (Kathryn Loder). The torture ceremon... | blaxploitation, cult, avant garde, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | While this film is not quite as great as the later one; it's still an excellent women in prison flick.
It's not long before the conditions inside the jail force the girls into planning an escape; but not before various rivalries amongst themselves are sorted out.This film is just great fun to watch, and that's what mak... |
tt0059927 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | On a flatbed lorry driven in the streets of London, a motorcar is under a grey cover with the initials RR. The Rolls Royce is first purchased by Charles, Marquess of Frinton (Rex Harrison) as a 10th wedding anniversary present for his French wife, Eloise (Jeanne Moreau). Frinton is Under-Secretary of State at the Forei... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1470023 | MacGruber | In eastern Siberia's Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Dieter Von Cunth and his men take control of the X-5 missile, which has a nuclear warhead. In Ecuador, Col. Jim Faith and Lt. Dixon Piper are searching for former Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger MacGruber. The two men find him meditating in a chapel, and try to convince... | comedy, murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | Will Forte does a great job with this movie by giving it a facade of half-wit humor and making fun of itself in subtle and also obvious ways.
The good parodies are really enjoyable, and I classify MacGruber as a good parody.I saw this at my local theater last night and while there weren't many other viewers, there was ... |
tt0295369 | Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil | The film begins with a young man named Nic (Charles Austin) being chased by two police officers (Wayland Geremy and Bobby Madsen) for selling cocaine. A week later, Nic, his partner-in-crime Ray-Ray (Choice Skinner) and three other delinquents: Eddie (Jermaine Cheeseborough), Ce-Ce (Nicole Pulliam) and the shy Charlott... | violence, comedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | Bad acting, bad characters, annoying clown, bad lines, you name it.
The only reason I watched Killjoy 2 is because I wanted to think that the filmmakers learned from their mistakes.
Not that the budget could have been much - this is the least scary film I have ever watched and laughed all the way through to the end (ac... |
tt0135024 | Une vraie jeune fille | Alice Bonnard (Charlotte Alexandra), a 14-year-old girl attending a boarding school in France, comes back to her home in the Landes forest for the summer of 1963. She flashes back to her time at school, where she frequently masturbated out of boredom. Her father (Bruno Balp) hires a young man named Jim (Hiram Keller), ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | What more are we looking for when we define something as art?The first clue should be in the title: "A Real Young Girl.' Our culture (male dominant still,) is fascinated with sexualizing what are in our cultural context, inappropriately young females, that is, pubescent, underaged, or more gracefully put "blossoming."... |
tt0372303 | The Good Shepherd | A photograph and an audio recording on reel-to-reel tape are dropped off anonymously at the home of Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a senior CIA officer, after the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba fails due to an undisclosed leak. While riding to work on the bus, Edward is approached by a young boy who asks if Edward has ... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0282698 | Love Liza | Wilson Joel's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) wife Liza (Annie Morgan) has, for an unexplained reason, committed suicide. Wilson one night discovers a sealed letter from his wife, which he believes to be her suicide note. In his grief-stricken state and with the added stress of finding the letter, which he cannot bring himsel... | melodrama, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1672723 | Batman: Year One | The story recounts the beginning of Bruce Wayne's career as Batman and Jim Gordon's with the Gotham City Police Department. Bruce Wayne returns home to Gotham City at the age of twenty-five from training abroad in martial arts, man-hunting, and science for the past 12 years, and James Gordon moves to Gotham City with h... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0896533 | Conjurer | For the past year, photographer Shawn Burnett (Andrew Bowen) and his wife Helen (Maxine Bahns) have been grieving the loss of their first child, which died in Helen's womb before it could be carried to term. They're hoping that a move to the country will help them both heal and move on with their lives. Shawn is somewh... | paranormal, murder, haunting, flashback | train | wikipedia | Good ghost stories always are slower paced with unsettling creepy touches that can be moody and Gothic and spooky.
So here's a tip to splatter fans and gorehounds >> AVOID THIS MOVIE << to the rest of you who like slower paced quality spooky movies, this is really worth watching.
I'm quite wary of American ghost storie... |
tt0251433 | Shun liu ni liu | Tyler (Nicholas Tse) impregnates a lesbian cop, Ah Jo (Cathy Tsui),after a drunken night. He joins an unlicensed bodyguard service led by Uncle Ji (Anthony Wong), to earn money to give to Ah Jo who wants nothing to do with him. Nearly nine months later, Tyler meets up with a butcher named Jack (Wu Bai) and his pregnant... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Time and Tide actually has a very well crafted story full of great characters and sharp dialogue.
Its as if Tsui Hark considered how every scene would be typically and familiarily shot, then conveys what happens in a totally unexpected way.
No block building here, one must jump in and and go with the flow.The film make... |
tt0047443 | Salt of the Earth | Esperanza Quintero (Rosaura Revueltas) is a miner's wife in Zinc Town, New Mexico, a community which is essentially run and owned by Delaware Zinc Inc. Esperanza is thirty-five years old, pregnant with her third child and emotionally dominated by her husband, Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacón).
The majority of the miners are... | cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | The film portrays the strike of Chicano mine workers in New Mexico.
Salt of the Earth probably has more to do with everyday American lives than 99 percent of Hollywood films.
Second, the production values, especially the cinematography - the Blacklist claimed some of the more talented technicians in Hollywood, and Salt... |
tt0094484 | In the Heat of the Night | Phillip Colbert, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is constructing a factory in Sparta, Mississippi. One night in September 1966, when driving back into town after a meeting at the plantation home of one of Sparta's leading citizens, Eric Endicott, he is murdered. His body is found on the pavement at the front of a... | murder | train | wikipedia | 21 years after Rod Steiger won an Academy Award as gum chewing police chief Bill Gillespie of Sparta Mississippi and Sidney Poitier told the world that in his city, THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS, the film was adapted into a successful television series about the new American South.
If you remember in the film Rod Steiger h... |
tt0104438 | Honeymoon in Vegas | Jack Singer (Cage) has sworn to his mother while she was on her deathbed that he would never get married. Years later, he goes back on his promise and proposes to his girlfriend, Betsy (Parker), and quickly arranges a Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Bally's Hotel.
Before the wedding, however, a wealthy professi... | comedy | train | wikipedia | You can't completely negate a movie that involves a desperate man who tries to gain back the love of his fiance by jumping out of a plane dressed like Elvis.
Nicolas Cage is over-the-top as the paranoid Jack, but his overacting works in the context of the film, and he's often very funny.
Like in "Guarding Tess", I thin... |
tt0385558 | The Bombardier | In 1941, at a staff meeting in Washington, D.C., two officers of the U.S. Army Air Corps (and old friends) debate the importance of bombardiers. Major "Chick" Davis (Pat O'Brien) argues that a bombardier, using the top secret American bombsight will be the "spearhead of our striking force." After a year of observing th... | pornographic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103112 | Toy Soldiers | In Barranquilla, Colombia, terrorist Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff) has taken over the Palace of Justice with a ruthless team of mercenaries. He demands the release of his drug kingpin father, Enrique Cali, only to be told that his father has already been delivered to the United States for trial. They escape by helicopter a... | violence | train | wikipedia | A Very Good Movie and should deserve the same amount attention as Die Hard and Hostage!.
This movie is about prep school called The Regis School and its packed with rebellious kids, in which one kid William Tepper (Sean Astin) has a hard time adjusting due to prior rejections from other schools cause they couldn't cont... |
tt1504467 | Puppet Master: Axis of Evil | The film begins at the Bodega Bay Inn, 1939. Danny Coogan (Levi Fiehler) is making wooden chairs for a wedding reception for his Uncle Len (Jerry Hoffman), who owns the Inn. Danny tells his uncle that if it was not for his limp, he would be able to go to war, along with his brother Don (Taylor M. Graham), and tells his... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035733 | Chicken Little | In the small town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little causes widespread panic and mayhem when he rings the alarm bell, claiming the sky is falling. He is humiliated in front of his father Buck Cluck and the entire town when, after telling everyone a piece of the sky "shaped like a stop sign" had hit him on the head, he is un... | psychological | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0279695 | Blackwoods | Matt Sullivan (Patrick Muldoon) is a travels with his girlfriend Dawn (Keegan Connor Tracy) from their urban residence in Denver on a vacation to the Blackwoods of Colorado, only to discover a motel run by a motel clerk, Greg (Clint Howard), a deranged family, and a horrific secret.
Matt is haunted by the death of a gi... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0329767 | Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself | When Wilbur leaves the hospital after having tried once more to kill himself, the staff ask his brother Harbour to let Wilbur move in with him.
The brothers thus share their childhood flat, which is next door to the bookshop their father left them.
Uninterested in the family business, Wilbur works in a nursery. Harbour... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | It tells the tale of two 30-something brothers who own a dilapidated second-hand bookshop in Glasgow, and their search for different things.The writing is effortless, but so natural and brilliant, the characters are beautifully crafted and it makes a refreshing change to see a film that is not about the location or th... |
tt0029297 | Navy Blue and Gold | After each is accepted for admission to Navy, three midshipmen, Dick Gates, Roger Ash and "Truck" Cross, become roommates. Dick is the scion of a wealthy family, Roger a former star football player for another university, and Truck a sailor appointed from the fleet. With a common love of football, all three go out for ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A fun and enlightening perspective on the USNA from the 1930's.
This is a fun period piece for graduates, parents of current midshipmen or of Naval Academy graduates, or staff and faculty of the Naval Academy to get a look at the US Naval Academy of the 1930's.
It's fun light piece which provides some interesting histo... |
tt0073458 | Nishant | Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani (Smita ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Disturbing bureaucracy, uplifting revolution and empowerment.
Vishwam is the youngest brother of the powerful and cruel landowner Zamindar (Amrish Puri).
He is married to Rukmani and, unlike his brothers, does not indulge in alcohol or women.
But one day the village gets a new school teacher, whose wife Sushila (Shaban... |
tt0098645 | Who's Harry Crumb? | While visiting a health studio in Beverly Hills, fashion model Jennifer Downing, the daughter of millionaire P.J. Downing, is kidnapped. Her father turns to a family friend, Eliot Draisen, who is president of the detective agency Crumb & Crumb, to investigate the case.
Eliot is reluctant to supply P.J. with one of his ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | One of my favorite comedies, Who's Harry Crumb is the story of a bumbling private detective played by John Candy, who uses a number of disguises throughout the film.
And nothing more as it was not created to be more.John Candy was an amazing guy in comedy because he could bring you from tears to laughs to thinking mome... |
tt0102713 | The Prince of Tides | Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte), a teacher and football coach from South Carolina, is asked by his mother, Lila, to travel to New York to help his twin sister's psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein (Barbra Streisand), after his sister Savannah's (Melinda Dillon) latest suicide attempt. Tom hates New York but reluctantly accepts, larg... | melodrama, flashback, home movie | train | wikipedia | I avoided this movie because I did not care to see a romance involving Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte.
Sincere, generally well-crafted story about the far-reaching effects of childhood trauma, lovingly directed by Streisand and grounded by Nick Nolte's profoundly moving performance..
Despite a rather protracted love s... |
tt0050156 | The Bachelor Party | Charlie Samson (Murray) is a hard-working married bookkeeper, struggling to advance himself by attending night school to become an accountant. He and four co-workers throw a bachelor party for a fellow bookkeeper, Arnold Craig (Philip Abbott), who is about to get married. After the party, they decide to go bar-hopping.... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | The depressing part comes in realizing that there seems to be no room for the sort of superb writing and spot-on flawless performances in a mature drama such as we have offered to us by THE BACHELOR PARTY.The reason for the scarcity of wonderful films like this owes to the movie's origin as a TV-play, at a time when th... |
tt0118001 | Two Much | Art Dodge (Antonio Banderas), a former artist, is struggling to make ends meet with his art gallery, ignoring bills and delaying to pay his assistant Gloria (Joan Cusack) and his artist Manny (Gabino Diego). To survive, he is reading the obituaries and trying to convince the widows that the deceased purchased a paintin... | comedy, boring | train | wikipedia | Funny and agreeable screwball farce well shot in Miami by the great filmmaker Fernando Trueba.
A very pleasant romantic comedy plenty of humor , emotion , fun scenes and mayhem .
Oscarized director Fernando Trueba , also writes the interesting and bemusing script along with prestigious screenwriter/director as well as ... |
tt0027884 | Libeled Lady | Wealthy Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) is falsely accused of breaking up a marriage and sues the New York Evening Star newspaper for $5,000,000 for libel. Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), the managing editor, turns in desperation to former reporter and suave ladies' man Bill Chandler (William Powell) for help. His scheme... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | The stars being Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, some of the best actors working in Hollywood in the thirties!Only a studio like MGM could pull this coup.
Jean Harlow had perhaps her best moment in the movies playing Gladys Benton, the woman who is engaged to be married and has her wedding post... |
tt0011904 | The Ace of Hearts | The film is divided into ten chapters. A secret vigilante society's nine members pass judgment on others. They meet to decide the fate of a wealthy businessman they have been keeping under surveillance known as “The Man Who Has Lived Too Long” and vote to dispatch him with a homemade bomb concealed in a cigar case. Mem... | suspenseful, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109021 | 8 Seconds | While growing up in Oklahoma, young Lane Frost (Cameron Finley) learns the tricks of the bull riding trade at the hand of his father, Clyde (James Rebhorn), an accomplished rodeo bronco rider himself. As he enters his teenage and early adult years, Lane (Luke Perry) travels the western rodeo circuit with his best frien... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a great movie and Luke Perry does a great job of playing Lane Frost.
For those who don't know, 8 Seconds is the length of time one has to remain on the back of bucking bull in the bull riding event at a rodeo.
I'm sure that those cowboys feel that those 8 seconds are like an eternity.This picture is about one o... |
tt0057542 | Summer Magic | Financial problems force young Boston widow Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) and her 3 children to move out of their home. Nancy (Hayley Mills), the dramatic and kind-hearted eldest, remembers a large yellow house that the Careys had admired when they visited the small town of Beulah, Maine, and makes an inquiry about ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | It is a good-natured, fun film that you don't have to worry about letting your children watch.
Hayley Mills is a delight as the ever-optimistic Nancy Carey who misrepresents her family's situation in order to win the sympathy of Mr. Popham, a rural Maine postmaster, general store owner, sheriff, etc.
Burl Ives as the l... |
tt0424205 | Joyeux Noël | The story centers mainly upon six characters: Gordon (a Lieutenant of the Royal Scots Fusiliers); Audebert (a French Lieutenant in the 26th Infantry and reluctant son of a general); Horstmayer (a Jewish German Lieutenant of the 93rd Infantry); Palmer (a Scottish priest working as a stretcher-bearer); and German tenor N... | anti war, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | By depicting a unique event in European war history that occurred on Christmas day 1914 it shows viewers that Europeans can be as one even as "enemies".About ten years ago I watched Paul McCartney's video "Pipes of Peace" and thought that what it depicted was completely fictitious--nothing more than pacifists' dreams.
... |
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